Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives were quick to retort. Said one heatedly: "Some of those Korean marriages are just sordid commercial arrangements. Many G.I.s who marry Korean girls never attempt to have their wives follow them when they leave Korea. The marriage was just a black-market partnership in the first place." A PX official backed up part of her complaint: "I have seen a Korean wife walk out laden with packages-and be back within an hour to buy more...
Moral Support. But if, in fact, Korean wives often did take their purchases straight to the side streets of Seoul, Pusan and Taegu, which are lined with black markets whose vendors do not even bother to remove the PX labels from their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued...
...have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer lock on the Finnish economy, or at least a half nelson, by exacting such heavy reparations after World War II that the Finns, in order to pay them, had to set up industry for which Russia is the only real market...
...What do you suppose, sir, is eating Castro?" rose the question in president Eisenhower's press conference last week, bringing a telling hoot of laughter from the newsmen. Eisenhower could only express bewilderment: "We are Cuba's best market, and you would think they would want good relationships. I don't know exactly what the difficulty...
...German market for art and antiques stands at more than $60 million a year, three times what it was before the war. Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were...